There is a book,
a book i have by my bed, it is not an easy book.
Like many good books it can be read in “various ways”. Like many books it has layers, rooms. The books that means or have meant, something in my life are a bit like a painting about which you can appreciate the whole or the detail, the technique, the materials composing it, etc.

Its title is “Donne che corrono con i lupi’ {Women Who Run With the Wolves}. it is a reading book, a guide, a psychology book, a voyage, and much else.

{The following is a translation, by me, from Italian – as I do not own the English version}

C. P. Estés

“Healthy wolves and healthy women have some psychological traits in common: acute sensibility, playful spirit, and great devotion. Wolves and women are akin by nature, knowledge curious and they do possess great strength and resistance.
They are deeply intuitive and they are intensely caring of their ones, their partners, the group.
They are expert in the art of adapting to the ever changing circumstances: they are fiercely strapping and very courageous”

I love this book, I FEEL it.
It is a book every woman should read. It is a book most women do not need to read, because they are just wolves, yet, awareness is knowledge, and knowledge is inner strength. It is soul, it is celebrating this wonderful magical thing called life, it is understanding the depth of soul.

To me it is so. Often when I read such things I feel quite small and yet at the same time “capable”, full of potential. Most of all I feel I have a lot to learn, and I love learning.

Kitty Michele